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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1968
Page
1
A Glen Arbor court bans a trailer at the artel SROTS Clinic moving to Second Baptist Church Highlands for its final testing day. Pre school clients will enter first grade next fall with on site attendance planned for Highlands and Harlem Elementary pupils.
The Baytown forecast calls for fair conditions through Thursday night with rising clouds and a rise in temperatures into the upper 70s. Friday brings warmer weather with highs in the upper 60s to upper 70s and clear to partly cloudy skies. Galveston tides show highs at 4:24 a.m. and 2:02 p.m. with lows at 10:30 a.m. and 5:36 p.m.
A jumble of social mentions and absences lists several birthdays and guests. Mrs. Bailey hosts relatives from Hitchcock and Washington, D.C. while others visit Scotch Plains and San Jancinto Hospital. A local actor recuperates as Libby Kehoe and Lil Abner castmates rehearse. Joe Ayler in Vietnam plans a May 4 birthday, missing his mother’s cooking. Gary Jones and Donnie Muennick are in a Sadie Hawkins race.
Baytown Ready Mix Concrete Co builds a $100,000 concrete plant on Cedar Bayou near Highway 146. Plant manager Troy Herring says foundations are laid and operations begin in eight to nine months. The facility will be a modern punch-card plant with sand and gravel barged in, cement hauled from Houston, and Kilfore Material Co acquired. Land bought from Dr Lee Liggett at 8600 per acre.
A Mexican police official said a U.S. citizen questioned in Hermosillo bears no resemblance to James Earl Ray, the suspect in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. Baltimore mother Pearl Kennedy expressed disbelief at the claim, noting her son Daniel David Kennedy was in Baltimore and left March 24 for Mexico.
Baytown council discusses parade rules policing off duty hours and signs on utility poles. They plan to draft an ordinance with City Attorney Laughlin, consider widening Ward Road and a planade, review bids for city vehicles vending machines and a motor grader, and examine sewer and housing cooperation matters.
President Johnson, amid a 1968 withdrawal, made a post announcement appearance at a Democratic fund dinner in Chicago. He teased the audience with remarks suggesting endorsement but asserted he is President, not the vice president or a senator, and called for unity while promising to devote himself to winning peace.
A planned march by Bayou Maintenance Co workers over wages ended Thursday as negotiations renewed. Rev Sherman Gray said workers earn 1.83 dollars an hour and could return by Monday if a deal is struck by week end. If not, the march on Airhart Drive to Highway 146 will proceed as planned.
AP wires report the Texas gubernatorial contest intensifies as candidates lambaste opponents with derisive labels. National focus tilts to urban rioting. Viet Nam war casualties dip slightly while South Vietnamese losses rise. Wal lace campaigns in Texas. a helicopter crash kills two crew. Dallas secures $1 million for Regional Airport.
A Baytown based steering committee of about 40 Preston Smith supporters forms to back the lieutenant governor’s campaign in East Harris County ahead of the Democratic Primary on May 4. Co chairs Dr. Donald L. Brunson and Fim Bailey vow active outreach from 216 East Texas with office staff Misses Rite Ogden Mary Ogden and Karen Bobalik ready to hand out brochures and stickers detailing Smith’s 18 years in public service.
U S Steel and two societies will host a joint meeting Thursday at Humble and Refining Co. Baytown Refinery activity building. Guest speaker is Robert E. Peterson chief engineer for Texas Works of U S Steel. Peterson will discuss Texas Works A 360 inch Plate Mill. Non-members may attend.
Edward Bennett Jr 42 co owner of Ed and Ernie s Mobi Service Station at Thomas Circle died Wednesday in a Baytown hospital He was a mail carrier for the Baytown Post Office for 10 years and formed a partnership with his brother in law Ernie Revils in March of 2287 to buy the service station The funeral services set for 10 am Saturday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church Brownsville with rosaries in Baytown and Brownsville and honorary pallbearers named The Baytown community and Bell family circles are noted as survivors including wife four sons two daughters and several siblings born in Brownsville and longtime resident of Baytown
Five Glen Arbor property owners win a temporary injunction to remove a trailer from Lot 1 Section I amid deed restrictions in a subdivision between Garth Trust and North Main. Judge Thomas J. Stovall Jr. ordered Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. employee Jack Wilson to move the trailer, with a hearing set for July or August and a $3,000 corporate bond posted to cover potential damages.
Monday is the deadline for voter registration changes for those who changed precincts or plan to before the May 4 primaries. County Democratic Party Chairman W N Bil Blanton Jr warns without official certificates voters cannot participate legally. Changes must be filed at the Houston office of Carl S Smith, county tax collector, open until 5 p.m. Monday.
Senator Ralph Yarborough introduced legislation for a federal study of Baytown Brownwood area flooding. The bill backs a Corps of Engineers investigation into building a levee across western Scott Burnet and Crystal bays to curb flood tides caused by industrial groundwater withdrawal along the Houston Ship Channel.
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